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Price: $26.00
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Eric Lott
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5130973
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Publication Date: 2006-03-20
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: What ever happened with that liberal intellectual "boom" of the 1980s and 1990s? In The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual, Eric Lott--author of the prizewinning Love and Theft--shows that the charter members of the "new left" are suffering from a condition that he has dubbed "boomeritis." Too secure in their university appointments, lecture tours, and book deals, the once rising stars of the liberal elite--including Richard Rorty, Todd Gitlin, Michael Lind, Paul Berman, Greil Marcus, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--have drifted away from their radical moorings toward the political center. At once a chronicle of recent intellectual life and a polemic against contemporary liberalism's accommodations of the conservative status quo, The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual eviscerates the complacency that has seeped into the politics of the would-be vanguard of American intellectual thought. Lott issues a wake-up call to the great public intellectuals of our day and challenges them to reinvigorate political debate on campus, in their writing, and on the airwaves.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.1092
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Publication Date: 2001-06
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Employs the political philosophy of John Rawls to address controversies involving politics and religion.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.89
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Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeffrey M. Berry::Kent E. Portney::Ken Thomson
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.850973
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Publication Date: 1993-01
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Reading Level: 342
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steven M. Dworetz
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1994-12
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution—the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of "America’s Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke," in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the "spirit of capitalism," a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo Strauss and C. B. Macpherson. Drawing on an examination of sermons and tracts of the New England clergy, Dworetz argues that the colonists themselves did not hold this conception of Locke. Moreover, these ministers found an affinity with the principles of Locke’s theistic liberalism and derived a moral justification for revolution from those principles. The connection between Locke and colonial clergy, Dworetz maintains, constitutes a significant, radicalizing force in American revolutionary thought.
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Price: $47.95
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Sale: $39.93
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Gray
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.44
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Publication Date: 1998-06-05
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Reading Level: 187
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Description: Hayek on Liberty is a concise yet exhaustive and provocative study of this classic liberal philosopher. It examines the structure and impact of Hayek's system of ideas and locates his position within Western philosophy. Not available since the 1980s, this updated 3rd edition contains a a substantial new chapter in which Gray assesses how far the historical development of the last ten years can be deployed in a critique of Hayek's thought. Gray's reassessment is not only a provoking study of a classical philosopher; it is also a timely contribution to the debate over the future of conservatism.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $1.09
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Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jim Hightower
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Publisher: Viking Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931092
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Publication Date: 2004-07
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Author Jim Hightower is not, as the title of his recent book about the George W. Bush administration indicates, a fan of equivocation. "The Bushites are--let me put this politely as I can--NUTS!" he writes, "They're insane. They're zealots totally dedicated to implementing their plutocratic, autocratic, militaristic, and imperialistic vision of America." The chapters in Hightower's book are prefaced by a series of reasons Bush fans may give for supporting the President followed by blistering and often highly entertaining refutations of those reasons. However, Hightower phrases the pro-Bush reasons to sound as boneheaded as possible, thus giving himself an easier time shooting them down. Meanwhile his down-home humor and polemical wackiness can be tiresome, occasionally getting in the way of efforts to clearly make a point. But don't be fooled by the wackiness: Hightower has done his homework and presents disturbing evidence of the dangers of Bush policy, particularly in the areas of food safety, personal privacy, and the environment. Unlike many on the left, he largely avoids the war in Iraq and the reasons given by the Bush administration for fighting it but that focus on domestic life helps Hightower avoid the pitfall of attacking everything Bush has ever done and being left to spend only a limited amount of time on each. Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush was published in July of 2004 just as the presidential election was heating up and it is very much a book of the moment, featuring references to the need to win the election and attempting to give those who oppose Bush some talking points for when they talk to those who support him. Neither those talking points nor this book are likely to change any minds but Jim Hightower's humor and energy provide are welcome in an election season. --John Moe
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $44.95
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Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Walsh
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Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.513
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Publication Date: 1997-03
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Reading Level: 386
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Description: In The Growth of the Liberal Soul, David Walsh confronts a core difficulty of the liberal democratic tradition in explaining and justifying itself. Acknowledging the incompleteness of liberal order as a theoretical explication of its underlying beliefs, Walsh analyzes contemporary debates about the foundations of liberal democratic politics. The widespread abandonment of the search for foundations by John Rawls, Richard Rorty, Michael Oakeshott, and the deconstructionists has been interpreted as signifying the absence of any sustaining inner resources. The result has been the confusion of contemporary liberal democratic self-understanding, which cannot make sense of its own extraordinary historical success nor apparently prevent the evident unraveling of its own moral code. It is this state of crisis from which Walsh's study takes its point of departure. Unique in combining contemporary political relevance with historical depth, The Growth of the Liberal Soul brings together two approaches that are often treated separately. Walsh elaborates on the existential core of the liberal political tradition by way of an investigation of the historical sources and the raging contemporary debates.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard Allen
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
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Publication Date: 1998-04-01
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Reading Level: 266
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Description: Allen takes up Michael Polanyi's argument that "negative" liberty -- doing as one pleases so long as one does not impinge upon the equal liberty of others -- must and has led to destructive nihilism and a fierce reaction to collectivism. He shows how Polanyi's political philosophy evolved into a more "positive" concept of liberty, converging upon the archetypal conservatism of Edmund Burke. Allen examines Polanyi's and F.A. Hayek's thinking with respect to the nature, value, and foundations of liberty. For Allen, only Christianity, and certainly no modern philosophy, has a conception of the unique individual and his irreplaceable value and of a political order that transcends itself into the moral order. Beyond Liberalism challenges deeply ingrained notions of liberty and its meaning in modern society.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5130944
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Publication Date: 1994-10-03
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French political thinkers writing today, including Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry, and Alain Renaut. The central theme of these essays is liberal democracy: its nature, its development, its problems, its fundamental legitimacy. Although these themes are familiar to American and British readers, the French approach to them--which is profoundly historical and rooted in the tradition of continental philosophy--is quite different from our customary one. Included in this collection is a series of reconsiderations of French critics of liberal society (Lvi-Strauss, Foucault, Bourdieu) and of classical European liberals (Kant, Constant, Tocqueville). The continuing controversies over the nature of the modern era and the place of religion within it play a central role throughout the collection. The book includes a debate on the foundations of human rights and on the nature of a liberal political order. The concluding section presents some of the new sociological writing on modern individualism, its pleasures and its discontents. An introduction by Mark Lilla provides the historical background to the revival of French political thought about liberalism, and offers an analysis of what American and English readers might learn from it.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Steven Lukes
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
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Publication Date: 2003-07
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned relativism--more specifically, the double bind of ethnocentric universalism, or "liberalism for the Liberals, cannibalism for the cannibals". While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice, the politics of identity and human rights theory, as well as discussing how ideas drawn from the work of Isaiah Berlin can shed light on these debates.
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